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A Diplomatic Crusade 269
and handed it to Marjorie, saying, “There, take
that and go to your room. Your hair looks frump-
ish with so much excitement, and if you don't
hurry to do it you will be locked out, for the bell
rang ages ago. Think what it would be to miss
Sunday evening supper! ”
Marjorie vanished behind the portiere and con-
tinued her flow of flattery, which Eleanor by sing-
ing “Ancient of Days,” rendered inaudible. Then
they discovered they had but one minute in which
to get to the dining-room, and tied down the corri-
dor with other late stragglers to reach the goal of
their desires before a dark and cruel hand should
bar them thence.
Marjorie’s cause could have found no better
champion, no one more fitted to illustrate her theory
of the influence of college training on women, than
herself. She was one of those healthy inspiring peo-
ple, becoming ever more numerous especially among
college women, who do everything well, if not all
things equally well; and who show how invaluable
is the discipline which has given them largeness of
view and a certain ready grasp of affairs often lack-
ing in those who have missed the same training.
She saw life steadily, this senior of twenty-two,
(though she could not as yet see it whole) and
therefore she was neither scatter-brained nor prig-